Bagpipes

[Wompet]

Check this out - there are thirty pages each with a different bagpipe from around the world!

http://www.hotpipes.com/pipe0001.html


Brian

I have the album. Every once in a while, when someone at work rags on me on learning to play "that gadawfhul instrument," and they don't have to like pipes because they're [insert nationality here], I pull out that CD and say, "But pipes are [insert same nationality here]! How can you not like your own music?"
That usually quiets them down for a few months.

[Sean_the_Kilted]

Check this out - there are thirty pages each with a different bagpipe from around the world!

http://www.hotpipes.com/pipe0001.html


Brian

neat page, I wasn't aware that there were bagpipes in countries other than the british isles. Is that cd any good?

[Jerry]

I've enjoyed the sound of the pipes for as long as I can remember. I only discovered the piercing quality of bagpipes recently when I pulled up beside one of those "pimpmobiles", at a stoplight, with the roof pulsing from the loud and obnoxious rap music he was blasting for everyone in the next state to have to hear. I cranked up the bagpipe music I was playing on my CD player, and he rolled up the window. My radio did not have a big power amp like he did, but it did have "power pipes" on the CD.

[Macman]

neat page, I wasn't aware that there were bagpipes in countries other than the british isles. Is that cd any good?

It's a very interesting CD. I don't play it as much as my other pipe CD's, but it is an excellent survey of the many different bagpipes from around the world. I definitely had to have it. It's well put together and is a good CD.

[Joe Gondek]

You don't have to have Scottish blood to wear a kilt
But if you have Scottish ancestery,
A love of both Kilts and Pipes are in your blood

[McJore]

You don't have to have Scottish blood to wear a kilt
But if you have Scottish ancestery,
A love of both Kilts and Pipes are in your blood

do spaniards count?, i like both kilts and pipes

[BEEDEE]

For me - there is something mystical and awe inspiring about the bagpipes. I like to tell the story (supposedly true) from 1967 when the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders retook the town of Crater in Aden by marching in in the early hours of the morning and not a shot was fired. At dawn the Pipes and Drums of the Battalion played on the roof of one of the highest buildings. The Argyll & Sutherland's had no problems from the local population after that. If that is not a measure of the power of the bagpipe, I don't know what else there is.

Brian

[beloitpiper]

Yeah, I hate bagpipes.....

[The Celtic Gypsy]

Nah - it's not genetic. My father who was as German as they come (he wore lieder hosen) loved the pipes. He always told my adopted sister, who is a top-notch player, that she was going to play at his funeral, piping him into church for the final time. She said it was the hardest thing she ever had to do, but the pipes had the clearest, sweetest sound, with a bit of the sadness of loss. Dad would have loved it! Prost!

[Frank McGrath]

The pipes drew me to kilts